UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

We have an issue here:

The libc.so.6 file (link) is corrupted and it causes the system unbootable. It even doesn't boot to single user mode. How can we boot the system to fix the library file? Or is there any other solutions for this issue?


Here are some boot messages:

Code:

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Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Thanks a lot in advance!

vmware can use iso images as boot disks I believe, so you could try booting a virtual rescue CD on your virtual machine and access the filesystem from there.

Thank you!

This was what I thought: First to boot the vmware virtual server from CentOS Live CD, and then mount the disk and access to the file system to fix the corrupted file. But I don't know how to mount the virtual disk, and not sure if the filesystem on the virtual disk can be seen and accessed from the live OS.

[edit] ah, you were trying to do it the other way? Yeah, when I was using vmware 5 years ago raw Linux-readable disk files were already being depreciated.

Booting from the rescue mode can not access to the virtual system's virtual disk. At least I don't know how to do it. The corrupted file can not be fixed.

I am trying to install vmware-mount tool from vmware service console to mount the virtual disk. Lots of dependencies such as fuse, libxml need to install.

Is there any other 'easy' way to access to the virtual disk?

Thanks!

What does fdisk -l show you in the rescue disk? What's in /sys/class/block? Does it mention any devices in dmesg? Linux must have been able to access the disk in the first place somehow to get installed in the first place...

Working now. Actually I didn't try hard yesterday to do it from rescue boot. I put too much time on vmware-mount. It's not easy to install it on Red Hat ES 3 which is too old.

It's LVM, so got error 'unknown filesystem type LVM2_member'. Solution: Find LV name by using lvmdiskscan and lvdisplay, then mount it with 'mount /dev/system/boot /mnt'. The boot disk is mounted and corrupted file is fixed. Now I start to like vmware.

Thank you again!